Understanding Trump & the Alt-Right Movement

Understanding the Trump Moment

Jessie Daniels, PhD November 9, 2016

Twitter: @JessieNYC

<my research>

WS Before & After the Internet

WS is similar to mainstream rhetoric around race & it is gendered.

The Internet makes it easier for WS to connect (but not recruit), WW on Stormfront ID as feminist.

<The Trump Moment>

what’s changed since the 1990s?

different media landscape

FoxNews, Reality TV & Twitter

empowered the KKK

emboldened the “alt-right”

From left, Andrew Anglin, The Daily Stormer; Richard Spencer, The Alternative Right; Jared Taylor, American Renaissance; Matthew Heimbach; David Duke; Milo Yiannopoulos and Steve Bannon. (Yahoo News photo illustration;

photos: AP, Facebook, Getty Images, Reuters)

<2015>

<2016>

not only men

‘translocal whiteness’

not going away

This is a mirror.

Donald J. Trump, 2016White Aryan Resistance, 1997